Alright, so everyone knows that The Holocron had to shut down recently. It was a great resource, so I've decided to carry it on in spirit. But what I want to know is what does everyone want to see on a website like that. I've already started working on it, and NickName has been very awesome and gotten me all the files from The Holocron, so everything that was there will be here. That's a LOT of stuff, though, so I've still got plenty of leg work to get this up and running, and it's still a work in progress. Right now I've got a domain name, I've got a CMS, I just need to get stuff up and looking pretty before it's ready for the public eye.

In my mind, I want it to be a one-stop-shop kind of resource for anything you would need to read, download, whatever. It will have all the rules info, including the rulebook, glossary inserts, and FAQ. It will have tons of old articles, and I'm hoping I'll be able to post some new articles, too. It will have Vassal information, including how-to's as well as the mod files and everything you need to get that running correctly. It will have V-set cards. It will have tournament pairing software. It will have tournament entry sheets.

Basically, if there's something you could possibly download in relation to SWM, I want to have it hosted there. I won't be putting up a forum because we already have 2, and I won't be putting up an online squad builder or collection tracker because BlooMilk has those covered quite well.

As I mentioned, I'd also like to get regular articles up. If you'd like to write an article, let me know! If you want to write a regular column, even better!

What else would you guys want to see? Let me know! I want this to meet as many needs and desires as possible, so I need feeback to get that done.

_________________"An elegant, easy-to-understand concept or mechanic that accomplishes 95% of what you want is much better than a clunky, obtuse mechanic that gets you 100%" - Rob Daviau

3. Online gaming interface, like Vassal but actually integrated with the all the info from the Bloomilk portion, so squads generate automatically, unit stats are right there, a variable AI to play against when no one is around (set your hardness level, Echo, Billiv15, Fingersandteeth, etc) , LOS is clearly defined along with cover.

Here's a question - why another website? All that sounds great, but why not just post it here?

Because this is a forum. When was the last time you went to the front page of http://www.swmgamers.com? Most people rarely do. And even if you do, it's pretty messy. This just isn't a good website for content delivery. It's a great forum, but an inherently bad place to host something like, say, mini manager. Bloomilk has a similar problem. That's why The Holocron was a great website; it was purely for resources. Neither Gamers nor Bloomilk are optimized for resource and content delivery. The Holocron was, and I'm creating a website that fills the gap now that The Holocron isn't around.

Also, both Gamers and Bloomilk are kind of notorious now for having owners that are hard to get to. I'm confident that if I DID want to help turn either site into a resource like this it would be a pretty big pain to get in touch with (let alone help from) either Dean or Shinja. I think this is something that the community needs, I have the ability to do it, so I'm taking the opportunity to get it done.

_________________"An elegant, easy-to-understand concept or mechanic that accomplishes 95% of what you want is much better than a clunky, obtuse mechanic that gets you 100%" - Rob Daviau

First of all, thanks for doing this Dan! I don't know how you find time for this, in addition to your involvement with V-set design.

I would like to see a maplist (copied from the Floor Rules), with links to pictures of each map. And with those pictures, it would probably be helpful to list all of the other names by which that map is known (ie, Cloud City, aka Bespin or Throne Room, aka Chancellor's Starship). That would be very valuable, IMHO. If that list was organized according to the map's status (Restricted, Standard, Open), that would be nice too.

A LOS-tool for the above maps...wow, if you could do that, I know it would get used all the time!

A simple and user-friendly place for all things Vassal:-an easy way to download the proper files-a step-by-step Vassal setup guide, complete with screenshots and every possible detail mapped out. I can't count how many people have trouble installing the Vassal files properly.

A way to download all the V-set cards. Not just as a sheet, but also individually; it is often valuable to be able to pull up just 2 or 3 of the cards if desired, so that you don't have to keep switching between the various pdf sheets. I have most of the individual cards, so you can PM me if you need them.

SHNN archives, ready for download.

_________________"Don't give the tool more credit than the master." --Weeks

An easy to find, well-described selection of files that you need for Vassal.

Essays, piece reviews, tactical puzzles, etc. that aren't in a teeny tiny font hidden in the dark corner of a website (I would be happy to contribute to these)

As many others have mentioned, some kind of Java app that let you call up any map and draw lines of sight all over it would be THE BOMB. Even better would be if you could click on a square and bam, every square that has a LOS to it is lit up or highlighted.

I'd like to see a site where we can download stuff, look up stuff, see pictures of stuff, basically a resource site. While forums and all the squad building amenities are nice, we already have that stuff on here and Bloomilk. If it can be managed all of it would be nice, but what I want is what we lost when we lost the Holocron.

_________________Cancer is not the boss of me.

Being organized is for people who are too lazy to look for their stuff.

As many others have mentioned, some kind of Java app that let you call up any map and draw lines of sight all over it would be THE BOMB. Even better would be if you could click on a square and bam, every square that has a LOS to it is lit up or highlighted.

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swinefeld wrote:

greentime wrote:

As many others have mentioned, some kind of Java app that let you call up any map and draw lines of sight all over it would be THE BOMB. Even better would be if you could click on a square and bam, every square that has a LOS to it is lit up or highlighted.

As many others have mentioned, some kind of Java app that let you call up any map and draw lines of sight all over it would be THE BOMB. Even better would be if you could click on a square and bam, every square that has a LOS to it is lit up or highlighted.

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